Even gods could feel fear.
Many native aliens had never imaged that their gods could suffer this kind of torment.
The elite orven and puelmer soldiers who had been assigned to the defense of the Tenth Tide Station all became terrified by how easily the Geneforger made a mockery out of their great god!
The Darkstar King did everything possible to resist the Geneforger.
He no longer tried to conserve his energy but expended it as much as possible to prevent himself from getting eaten!
He surrounded himself with 48 gravity wells at once!
The quantity was so enormous that the overlapping spatial warping effects completely disturbed the surrounding space and made it much harder for anything to get past.
Even if a powerful machine was able to push through all of the spatial warping, its trajectory should have deviated extensively enough for the Darkstar King to evade the threat!
Unfortunately for the powerful phase lord, the Evolution Witch showcased the complete futility of this draining measure by cutting straight through multiple gravity wells before severing the phase lord's left arm!
The Darkstar King roared in pain but recovered faster than before.
No matter how vulnerable he remained to physical trauma, he was still a greater phase lord who had gone through an unimaginable struggle to raise his phasewater concentration all the way to 92 percent.
His earlier loss had already caused him to get accustomed to this pain. The loss of another limb was most certainly traumatic, but a phase lord needed to endure greater suffering in order to grow to this point!
Just as the Darkstar King sought to attack the Geneforger before it could devour his other limb, the alien leader grew surprised when he noticed that the god biomech had already digested the biomass!
The Geneforger had grown even larger and taller than before!
The transformed god machine started to look as if it was a child of the Darkstar King!
"MORE. MY EVOLUTION IS NOT COMPLETE."
The hunger and desire radiated by the Evolution Witch's God Kingdom became palpable.
As the target of these overwhelming desires, the Darkstar King utterly felt as if he had been reduced to prey all of a sudden.
How could a dignified native god possibly devolve into such a pathetic victim?!
Even if he had lost two of his limbs all of a sudden, the loss was as crippling as it looked. The might of a greater phase lord was not completely related to the integrity of his limbs!
As the Darkstar King rapidly tried to devise a more effective means of attacking his current foe, the transformed Geneforger did not appear to be in a hurry to commence another attack run.
Instead, the orven-like biomonstrosity began to frown as it tried to experiment with its new body.
"YOUR FLESH IS WEAK, BUT MY WILL IS STRONG."
To the utter amazement of the Darkstar King and every other observer, the transformed Geneforger began to make a completely unexpected move.
The miniature clone of the Darkstar King successfully summoned a small gravity well in front of his floating form!
The gravity well was not that impressive. It was much smaller and weaker than the enormous ones that were powerful enough to tear apart entire cities.
That didn't matter to the aliens.
The Darkstar King already endured a lot of shocks during this battle, but the latest one was much more terrifying than the previous ones!
This was because the human god had actually managed to steal the orven phase lord's own technique!
This was impossible!
It took many years for phase lords to gradually master the art of manipulating the phasewater inside their own bodies.
Even though the Geneforger had only managed to replicate the size and power of a lesser phase lord, the fact that it managed to assimilate the Darkstar King's own strengths in a matter of minutes completely offended the aliens!
This was blasphemy of the highest order!
It was not enough for the invading humans to steal their territory and phasewater technology.
Even though the Evolution Witch had to rely on her overriding willpower to forcefully replicate all of the abilities of the Darkstar King, the fact that she was able to manifest the powerful of a genuine phase lord caused every alien god to feel violated!
No matter what, the humans could not be allowed to master the secrets of their own strength!
The Darkstar King gained renewed purpose! He completely abandoned his attempts to manipulate the battlefield and focused all of his strength on his body!
Spatial barriers along with other effects began to strengthen his true form in many different ways.
Even if his arms had turned into incomplete stumps, his legs were still fully intact!
After challenging so much power into his remaining limbs, the greater phase lord became confident enough that they could resist the physical impact of the Geneforger this time.
The Darkstar King uttered another space-rippling roar before he dove in with his legs first!
Just as his warping form was about to collide against the transformed Geneforger, the god biomech briefly disappeared from view before appearing slightly to the side!
This time the god biomech had managed to grab onto another severed limb!
Even as the Darkstar King started to recognize the utter futility of his latest measures, the Geneforger had already devoured the gigantic alien leg within a few seconds.
The god biomech's size had grown even further!
The bloodied grin of the orven-shaped god machine had become a lot more ominous as the Darkstar King finally started to give in to despair.
No matter whether he utilized his spatial manipulation abilities or his enormous body, none of it had posed any hindrance towards the human god!
"<nullb>MORE."
The Darkstar King looked a lot more pathetic than before as he tried to execute an emergency technique that would allow him to teleport several light-minutes away from his current location.
Yet as the Darkstar King's expended a lot of energy in an attempt to prevent his body from getting eaten any further, he discovered to his horror that the displacement effect did not take place.
"DID YOU THINK YOU COULD ESCAPE? MY WILL CANNOT BE DENIED. IN THIS KINGDOM, ONLY I REIGN SUPREME."
The Evolution Witch's God Kingdom completely enveloped the Darkstar King.
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